Improvement in grain-bags



A.- McKENNA.

- GRAIN-BAG. I No.177,140. Patented May 9,1876.

INVENTOB WITNESSES ".PEIERS. PHOTO-UTHOGRAPHER. WASHINGTOP. D. Q

UNITED STATES ARTHUR MOKENN A,

IMPRO VEMENT Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 177,140, dated May April 18, 1876.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, ARTHUR MGKENNA, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Grain-Bag, of which the following is a specification:

Figure 1 represents a front view of my improved grain-bag, being shown in emptystate. Fig. 2 is a top view of the same in filled condition and Fig. 3 a vertical transverse section of the bag.

Similar letters of referenceindicate corresponding parts.

The object of my invention is to furnish a grain-bag'that may be readily filled and securelyelosed without sewing up the mouth and it consists of a grain-bag with stitched corners or shoulders and an interior mouth: closing flap, and an exterior overlapping flap that is retained by a suitable fastening device.

' 'In the drawings, A represents my improved grain-ba'g,which is stitched at both sides of the mouth to form closed corners or shoulders.

The front section of the bag is cut "with an extension-flap, while the rear section has a forward-extending overlapping flap, O, of which the former serves to be pushed back on NEW YORK, N. Y.

m GRAIN-BAGS.

9, 1876 application filed I over the grain to close the mouth of the bag, while the latter is drawn over the top of the mouth-closing flap and fastened to the bag by a button, buckle,,or other device. The pushing back of the interior flap, which is held in position by the pressure of the grain and the attaching of the overlapping flap, is accomplished with great facility, and produces the perfect and reliable closin g of the bag. It dispenses with the difficult, time-consuming sewing up of the grain-bags, and allows their instant opening for taking out samples, and their convenient shipment and repeated use.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent- A grain-bag, made with closed shoulders, and with backward-extending lower flap, and an overlapping topflap that is retained by a suitable fastening device, substantially as specified.

ARTHUR MQKENN A.

Witnesses:

PAUL GoEPEL, T. B. MOSHER. 

